Telescopic Text
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Telescopic Text
Click away on the text. Expand the sentence. Have fun.
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Everyone Can Read
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Everyone Can Read
On screen keyboarding practice
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 5th, 2008 No Comments »
keybr.com lets you test your speed and accuracy on the keyboard. I’m such a slow reader it kills my speed which is much better when I’m simply writing without the reading, like now.
[via kottke.org]
Free Rice
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Free Rice is a vocabulary game. For each word you get right they’ll donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.
Dang, where the heck do they find all these words?!
[via Amy Mindell]
LibriVox Audiobooks
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jun 25th, 2007 No Comments »
LibriVox: acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.
The subhead says it all. Great.
[via Heather Dunbar]
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jun 20th, 2006 3 Comments »
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
20 Roszel Rd
Princeton NJ 08540
800-221-4792
custserv@rfbd.org
www.rfbd.org
With Sound From Africa, the Phonetic Alphabet Expands
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Dec 13th, 2005 No Comments »
With Sound From Africa, the Phonetic Alphabet Expands: “The International Phonetic Association is amending its official alphabet for the first time in 12 years.”
(Via NYT > Science.)
Language is a Virus
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jul 6th, 2005 No Comments »
Language is a Virus is a wonderful collection of linguistic tools for having fun with letters, words, and sentences as well as technique. Lots of good reading on the history of writing technique as well as words of wisdom from great writers.
Flocabulary
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Mar 3rd, 2005 2 Comments »
Flocabulary is a vocabulary building site that embeds new vocabulary words in rap lyrics and allows you to stream or download them to listen (study).
The site is crude but it’s getting some attention and there is undoubtedly research somewhere on putting new vocabulary into lyrical form to help it “stick” better. Not sure rap is [...]
Creating Young Writers in Resource Rooms
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 28th, 2005 1 Comment »
© Jaena L.H. Smith
jlhsmith@aol.com
The following techniques were developed to get the best results in creating young writers in a resource room instruction setting. These techniques were developed and refined over a period of nine years while I was an elementary resource teacher in a small school district. They are for students who have written language [...]